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Old 19th July 2009
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There are ports of "rar" and "unrar", the former is i386 binary-only.. the latter has source code available, but has a proprietary licence.

If you're in a situation where you need to extract an archive.. archivers/unrar does work.

You should never help proliferate the use of RAR/ZIP, the Windows programs "WinRAR" and "WinZIP" can read gzip/bzip2 compressed tar archives according to their websites, so I can't see any situation where you'll need to be able to create RAR/ZIP archives.

References:
http://www.winzip.com/wzdifs.htm
http://www.rarlab.com/otherfmt.htm
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